Yes, but he gets to be a lord in the deal, so I think he was not too disappointed. And not just lord of Harrenhal, but if he marries Lady Arryn (Catelyn's crazy sister who was breastfeeding the 7 year old from season 1) as was discussed in the show, he pretty much becomes lord over the Vale also. Sweet deal.

Also, she may breastfeed him too, if he's lucky.
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During the funeral scene, I loved when the older guy just decided to fire the shot properly and walked away without looking, knowing it will land on the boat.

YES!! I was going to mention that part. They were all getting more and more upset and the body was getting further and further away, finally Blackfish just shoves the kid out of the way, looks at the flag to gauge the wind, fires and tosses the bow back to the kid without even seeing that the arrow landed. So badasssss.

YES!! I was going to mention that part. They were all getting more and more upset and the body was getting further and further away, finally Blackfish just shoves the kid out of the way, looks at the flag to gauge the wind, fires and tosses the bow back to the kid without even seeing that the arrow landed. So badasssss.

Not exactly a kid. I keep seeing him as Marcus Junius Brutus from HBO's "Rome".

Marriages are arranged and women, like it or not, are pretty much property.

Remember earlier how Cersei complained bitterly to her father about how she had been married off to Robert Baratheon and had no say in the matter?

It's part of why she is who she is. This is a woman who doesn't like the role women are allowed to have, and wants more, and so she uses whatever she has to gain power. She's manipulative because she can't just pick up a sword and stab someone, much as she might want to.

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Marriages are arranged and women, like it or not, are pretty much property.

Then again Lysa's in a pretty good position...she's in charge of the Vale, she has a son who is the legitimate heir (personal shortcomings notwithstanding), she has no family to pawn her off, she has the loyalty of her people, there's no king strong enough to assert rights over her, and she has a stronghold that would be very hard to dislodge her from. So if she disapproves of a prospective union, she's in a better position than most women to register her complaints. Violently.

Talk about being set up to fail! He has to finance Joffrey's every whim. At least Littlefinger only had to finance the whims of a drunken womanizer...

The kingdom runs on money. They took the craftiest, sneakiest, smartest person and put him in charge of the purse strings. A person they just happened to thoroughly disrespect. I'm hoping they thoroughly underestimated Tyrion's abilities and this comes back to bite them all in the ass.

As far as Jaime goes, I'd like to give the show (and the writer) a round of applause. Ever since he was captured by the Starks, I kept saying to myself "yeah, you gotta keep him alive as a hostage, but you could always mess him up a bit of lop off his hand."

I mean, this was the jackass who pushed Bran out a window and crippled him.

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The kingdom runs on money. They took the craftiest, sneakiest, smartest person and put him in charge of the purse strings. A person they just happened to thoroughly disrespect. I'm hoping they thoroughly underestimated Tyrion's abilities and this comes back to bite them all in the ass.

Yeah. That occurred to me, too.

Maybe he'll find a way to shaft Daddy Lannister out of ton of money or worse, "Dad, this treaty you signed says that you are responsilbel for all of the Kingdom's expenses and war losses."

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As far as Jaime goes, I'd like to give the show (and the writer) a round of applause. Ever since he was captured by the Starks, I kept saying to myself "yeah, you gotta keep him alive as a hostage, but you could always mess him up a bit of lop off his hand."

I mean, this was the jackass who pushed Bran out a window and crippled him.

He's also the Jackass who sent an assassin to the Starks carrying Tyrion's dagger. It never made any sense that that "sellsword" didn't have his own sword.

The kingdom runs on money. They took the craftiest, sneakiest, smartest person and put him in charge of the purse strings. A person they just happened to thoroughly disrespect. I'm hoping they thoroughly underestimated Tyrion's abilities and this comes back to bite them all in the ass.

I think that's EXACTLY it. It seemed obvious to me that a person of Tyrion's cunning would be good at that job, and it's also a very important job. My first thought was why would Tywin give the Imp that job, but I think he underestimates his undersized son, and expects him to fail. If so, I hope it DOES bite him in the ass!